SuccessEHS gives doctors access to medical records via smartphones: Birmingham, Ala.-based electronic health record developer SuccessEHS launched an Apple Inc. (NSDQ:AAPL) iPhone app that gives healthcare providers access to the company’s EHR system. The company said the “Mobile EHR is a convenient and portable way for physicians to review summary patient data and dictate into SuccessEHS EHR. Using the iPhone, physicians have secure access to three patient lists (scheduled appointments, checked in patients and pending documentation) which can be manually or automatically synchronized based on the physician’s preference. The at-a-glance encounter patient summary includes documented ICD-9 and CPT codes, vital signs, medications and allergies.” 
American Medical Association issues social networking guidelines: The AMA issued a set of guidelines for physicians on how to use online social media tools. The whole document looks like a list of common sense points, but oftentimes they’re so vague as to be next to useless. Unless you’ve never had an inkling that “[p]hysicians must recognize that actions online and content posted may negatively affect their reputations among patients and colleagues,” then perhaps the internet is not for you. 
Cambridge Consultants developing a router for home healthcare devices: Cambridge Consultants is in the process of creating a product called Minder that can link any Continua certified device with a physician or electronic medical record system. It can also display reminder messages for patients to take pills from a health management system or directly from a doctor, according to the company. This device could serve as a model for a central control unit for continuous glucose monitors and blood pressure meters, while managing a drug regiment and exercise routines.
Philips Healthcare launches Web-based pacemaker monitoring service: Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) subsidiary Philips Healthcare announced a new Web-based system for remote monitoring of pacemakers. There’s not too much detail on the workings of the system in their press release about the service, but the device could be similar to the St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) Merlin@home transmitter. Merlin@home is used to interface with St. Jude’s implantable devices, and we suspect Philips is outsourcing that functionality to power its new service.
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